Regarding the TV series, I still have to communicate with the main agent first, Ji Jingyuan called Lee Seung-hwan, and then went to his office with the information.

Ji Kyung-won read the script and related materials given to him by Kim Won-seok over and over again I don't know how many times, and at the same time asked Park Jae-hyun to inquire about the news about this drama in the circle.

After two days of careful consideration, Ji Jingyuan has decided to participate in this drama.

This "Signal" can be regarded as the best batch in the TV drama circle of the Peninsula regardless of the main creative team, cast, script, and TV station support, especially in the script, although there are a lot of bugs, it is really exciting, which makes people feel that it is half successful before filming starts, which is obviously much stronger than the previous "Arbitrary Attachment" that Pei Xiuzhi was very ambitious.

Of course, it's still not as good as "Martial God Zhao Zilong"

"Jingyuan, you finally have a script to watch?"

In the office of the director of the SM room, Lee Seung-hwan looked at Ji Jingyuan, who was sitting in front of him, rummaging for something in his shoulder bag, and sat in a precarious position, waiting with great curiosity.

At the beginning, the company's arrangement of Chi Jingyuan's actor route was actually very ambitious, and it would read and screen the company's scripts and role invitations about Chi Jingyuan very carefully, and after careful selection, he picked out the scripts that he basically felt were the most exciting and the most promising to succeed.

It's a pity that no matter how optimistic they are about the drama, all the scripts selected by the company have been passed by Chi Jingyuan without exception, and none of them have been selected in the past few years, and the company has nothing to do about it, Chi Jingyuan's treatment is relatively special in SM, and every time he chooses a script, he basically takes his own ideas, plus every drama he has been successful since his debut, and most of the resources of each character are connected by himself, and his personal film and television resources are even better than the entire company, In the long run, SM will be left to its own devices.

And SM is actually a little anxious about Ji Jingyuan, who has been idle for almost a year after "Unborn", and has not filmed for almost a year, and recently SM has actually started to try to choose a script for Chi Jingyuan again, but I didn't expect the two sides to think of going together, Li Chenghuan suddenly received a call from the other party just now, and he is very much looking forward to Ji Jingyuan's choice of script this time.

“《signal》？ It's actually this drama? ”

As a result, the script handed over by the other party, and Lee Seung-hwan was immediately surprised when he saw the title on the title page, obviously he also knew some news about this drama.

"What character?" He immediately looked up and asked.

"One of the three protagonists, judging from the arrangement and roles in the information, it should be regarded as a male lead."

Ji Jingyuan sat on the chair leaning on the armrest, saw Lee Seung-hwan's curiosity, and took the initiative to explain: "It was the script that Kim Won-seok PD took the initiative to give me in private a few days ago, so I asked me to come back and think about it...... I thought about it for two days and felt that this drama was very suitable, and it was not very busy at the end of the year, which was expected to start filming. ”

"Ah, qingjia, the company has known about this drama for a long time, tvN's 10th anniversary special project, and you know how popular the last special project was...... Therefore, many companies in the circle are more covetous of the roles in it, but the casting of the crew of this show is very purposeful and has not been made public, resulting in many actors having no way to audition...... I didn't expect it to be Jin PD who took the initiative to find you, Jing Yuanling's personal connections are really wide enough, I don't know how many people will envy you if you say it. ”

Hearing Ji Jingyuan's extremely relaxed narration, Lee Seung-hwan sighed with great emotion while looking at the information in front of him, and finally raised his eyes to confirm after speaking: "Has it been decided that this is it?" “

"yes, sure."

Nodding, Chi Jingyuan thought about it, and added: "I'll contact Jin PD later, and it is estimated that the crew will communicate with the company tomorrow, but according to what Jin PD said, there are still a few competitors for my role, and it is not completely determined, so I will arrange an audition in the near future." ”

"The company remembered to coordinate

"I know, I'll follow up tomorrow."

Li Chenghuan nodded solemnly, and then looked at Chi Jingyuan with a smile: "It's not sure to say, but I have full confidence in Jingyuan, this role must be yours!" ”

"Hopefully......"

……

"I've been really tired in the past few days since my debut, I often record shows until midnight, and I have to get up very early the next day."

Chi Jingyuan was sitting in the back seat of the nanny car, holding his mobile phone and texting with Zhou Ziyu.

After confirming his intention to the drama "signal", both SM Company and Kim Won-seok's crew were very efficient, and on the 27th, three days later, a special audition was arranged for Ji Kyung-won, and the detailed scripts of the first few episodes were also sent over for him to prepare.

At this moment, he was on his way to the audition location, and his destination was tvN.

Not long after getting into the car, Chi Jingyuan, who was originally watching the news on the Internet, shook his mobile phone and received a text message from Zhou Ziyu.

What makes people feel a little strange is that although twice is a rookie girl group that has just debuted, JYP's management of their mobile phones is not as strict as most girl groups such as Gfriend, but it seems a little relaxed.

During this time, Chi Jingyuan had nothing to do and was bored, and glanced at the live broadcast of twice on the V APP, and a few of them were conducted in the acquired lounge of the singing show, and during the live broadcast, I saw several members of Rabbit Gas sitting there playing with their mobile phones, except for the members of the live broadcast with makeup, the others were basically one person.

JYP is so good......

Originally, I thought that after Zhou Ziyu and their debut, they would not be able to contact for a long time because of the company's management, but they didn't expect that on the third day of their debut, that is, after returning on the night of the recording of "Music Bank", Ji Jingyuan received a text message from the other party venting and questioning.

Maybe it's because of Chi Jingyuan's two yin and yang weird comments on her style in the background in the afternoon, or maybe it's because of some other reason, anyway, it made this girl angry, and after a period of 'hate', she had a one-sided cold war, and she didn't say a word to him for several days, and she looked really angry.

However, according to Chi Jingyuan's understanding of her, Zhou Ziyu's anger with him never lasted long, and sure enough, just now, this girl seemed to be angry, and she took the initiative to send a message to complain as if nothing had happened, and at the same time seek comfort.

According to what she said, twice's itinerary after her debut is almost full, all kinds of singing shows, book signings, variety shows, and radio stations are one after another, and even JYP has arranged a lot of campus raid performances for them, in order to accumulate popularity and popularity, they are willing to go to various small stages in schools, and they have basically not rested since their debut.

Although the excitement of their debut is still very high, and at the same time, they are willing to work hard and run hard for the rise of the group's popularity, and they take their best appearance seriously in every trip and every stage, but Zhou Ziyu and the other members are so tired that Zhou Ziyu and the other members can't help but have some small complaints in private.

"Do you have a lot of acne?"

"Not really!"

"Newcomers are like this, your debut results are good, so there are a lot of trips to strike while the iron is hot, at this time, almost every stage is improving your popularity, and others can't envy it."

After ridiculing, Chi Jingyuan sent a message more rationally, but after thinking about it, he added: "If you feel that you don't get enough sleep and are very tired, you have to learn to make up for sleep and rest by yourself in the middle of the trip, and play less with your mobile phone...... For example, now. ”

These are all empirical talks, but Zhou Ziyu seems to have not experienced it at all, and then posted a few more:

"We went to Jeju Island the day before yesterday because of the special episode of "Popular Ballads", and we went out for a spin in the middle, wow, the wind was really strong over there, by the way, we were still live at the time, did you watch it?"

"Nope."

(pouts) ...... I sang at the book signing yesterday, guess what I was singing? (wink)"

""Beauty Tricks"?"

Zhou Ziyu's wonderful performance on the first stage of "Sixteen", Chi Jingyuan estimates that he will not forget it in a few years.

"You...... I'm singing "The Important Man" by the Seventh Princess, have you heard it? I've been practicing for a long time. ”

"Why don't you sing 'Beauty Trick'?"

"You, why are you so annoying, I won't tell you (angry)."

"Haha......"

Seeing the last reply, which was obviously annoyed, Ji Jingyuan couldn't help but laugh out loud in the car.

Although this little girl has made her debut, because she has not had much contact with her for a long time, she has not matured much, and she still can't stand teasing in front of him as before.

This time, I don't know how many more days I have to be angry.

Two days......

Smiling and shaking his head, Chi Jingyuan glanced at the endless road outside the car window, took back his phone, picked up the "Signal" information placed next to him, and looked through it again.

According to what he knows and hears, the role of 'Park Hae-young', one of the three protagonists he is fighting for now, is currently the most competitive besides him, Lee Di-hoon, and the other Lee Jong-seok is said to have a small chance of success for various reasons.

So Li Dixun is now Ji Jingyuan's biggest competitor.

So Ji Kyung-won specially asked Park Jae-hyun to find some information about Lee Di-hoon and his brokerage company.

Although Lee Dixun is a very good one among young actors and has good acting skills, he has not had very outstanding works in recent years, and he is not very eye-catching among the rising stars.

He filmed the last step of his work before enlisting in the army in 2012, and the ratings and reputation of "Fashion King" cooperated with Kwon Yoo-ri were relatively average, the first after retiring from the army, and the only TV series "Secret Door" Although it won a lot of awards at the SBS Acting Awards last year, the average rating is only 6%, which is not as high as "Music Bank", and the evaluation from the outside world is also very low, so it can be said that it is a very failed TV series.

And Ji Jingyuan's "Unborn" last year was a big hit, and a drama also had a great social influence in addition to two candidates for the emperor, which also made Ji Jingyuan have a good reputation on tvN.

So in terms of achievements in TV dramas in recent years, Li Dixun and Ji Jingyuan are far behind.

And Li Dixun has not achieved much in terms of films in the past two years, the biggest benefit of "Introduction to Architecture" before enlisting in the army was taken by Pei Xiuzhi, the two movies shot after retiring from the army, one with a box office of 200,000 people, and the other with 1.7 million talents, the former pounced very miserably, and the latter was just average, which was not good.

In the competition for roles, his biggest advantage is that he has cooperated with Zhao Zhenxiong in his last two movies, and the relationship between the two is good, and the cooperation is also very good, that is, the writer Kim Eun-hee is more optimistic about him.

Nothing else.

The former doesn't really matter, but the attitude of the writer of the latter is still very crucial.

However, after contacting Kim Won-seok again, Ji Jingyuan felt that the pressure of role competition this time was not very great.

Because Kim Won-seok's attitude is very confident, it means that although Kim Eun-hee is optimistic about Lee Di-hoon, he just thinks that his appearance and acting skills are more suitable for this role, and his attitude is not very firm, and Kim Eun-hee is actually quite new to Ji Kyung-won, and thinks he is also very suitable.

Therefore, with the support of the director and tvN, the audition should be OK as long as there are no major problems. So that Chi Jingyuan doesn't even need to find some related networking activities.

On TV day, Chi Jingyuan went upstairs directly to the designated room under the leadership of the staff.

The room is not large, on one side are four transparent stools that have been placed, with a small table and their respective name tags in front, and in front of a white wall, there is also a stool in front, which is obviously the location of the pool view.

He was the only actor who came today, and it was a solo audition.

"Jingyuan is here."

After a while, several people walked into the room back and forth, and Jin Yuanxi, who was the head, said hello after seeing Ji Jingyuan, and did not shy away from the familiar relationship between the two, and began to introduce a few people next to him after sitting down.

In addition to PD Kim Won-seok, there are also writer Kim Eun-hee, production company representative Lee Sang-bae, and tvN's producer Lee Chan-ho.

The two people in it are more familiar with Ji Jingyuan, in addition to Jin Yuanxi, Li Canhao He also knows, he was also one of the producers when filming "Unborn" last year, and he has been in contact with it many times, but he didn't expect that he was also a producer of "Signal" this time.

That's not a coincidence.

Needless to say, the two main creators of several crews knew each other, Kim Eun-hee and Lee Sang-bae also had a very good attitude towards Ji Kyung-won, and after chatting casually and asking a few questions, they started the formal audition, and designated Park Hae-young to try to act in an impatient and angry clip.

Although it is said that in the casting of Peninsula TV series, the relationship behind it and the activities of the brokerage company account for the largest proportion, but the acting skills of the actors actually have a very important factor, although the acting skills are very subjective, everyone has their own opinions, but the good and bad acting, for the interpretation of the role, is actually a relatively unified standard.

The role is actually compatible with the actor, and some roles are played by a different person, which is really a completely different taste.

is like Kim Hye-so, although her acting skills are great and her status is also very high, but you played "Love Rain" for her, did she play it?

It's not like Yun'er's predecessors.

And the audition is very important for the main creative team of the TV series to select the actors, through the audition, they can see whether the actors' reactions are clear and real, how they responded to the script and the role, judge whether the actors are suitable for the role, and at the same time observe the creativity of the actors and the breadth of the performance.

Chi Jingyuan naturally attaches great importance to this audition, and has made a lot of preparations in the past few days, and after a short brewing at this time, he began to perform.

To be honest, even though Ji Kyung-won has filmed several popular TV dramas and his acting skills are widely praised in the circle, to be honest, the challenge of the role of Park Hae-young is really big.

Because judging from the few episodes of the script he got, the character of this actor has not been fully developed, and the shaping of the character image is not very profound, and Park Haeyoung has a lot of plots in the script that are extremely anxious and anxious because of emergencies.

If the interpretation is not good, it is easy to make Park Hae-young's anxious expression and scene become similar every time, and every time it is, 'The situation is urgent now, you listen to me, you shut up, it's too late, tell you to listen to me', making this image seem too thin to stand up.

In fact, Ji Jingyuan is not particularly satisfied with some of the settings of Park Hae-young, the male protagonist, and has some ideas about some plots and shaping and wants to communicate with the writer.

But that's all after the contract is officially signed.

After performing several clips in a row, several main creators asked Chi Jingyuan to stop, make eye contact, and discuss it in a whisper before giving an evaluation.

Several people's comments did not praise too much, but found some shortcomings and deficiencies in his performance just now. However, Ji Jingyuan could see that the writer Kim Eun-hee's eyes were a lot warmer when he looked at him, and he should be quite satisfied.

"Jing Yuan Xi and I have already worked together when we were in "Unborn" last year, and I know his strength."

After discussing for a while, Li Canhao took the initiative to express his opinion, although he didn't say it explicitly, but his preferred attitude was already very obvious.

"The role of Park Hae-young has high requirements for the actor's ability to control it, and when the other two protagonists have chosen powerful actors, it is easy for Park Hae-young to be set off with a thin image, and because there are certain requirements for age and appearance. So the choice of actors is actually not very much......"

After exchanging opinions left and right, Lee Sang-bae nodded and said, "Ji Jingyuan's performance just now was not very eye-catching, but the taste came out, I think it looks like Park Hae-young's feeling, it's good...... In this way, let's have another makeup audition in a few days, let several people try it, and then decide. ”

This drama is expected to start filming in December, and there is still more than a month of very sufficient preparation time, it can be seen that the crew is very careful about the choice of roles, and Kim Hye-so and Zhao Zhenxiong have not signed a contract yet, so they did not make a decision on the spot today.

But looking at the expressions of these four creators and the attitudes they just showed, it should actually be about the same.

Kim Won-seok also agreed with this, he looked at Ji Kyung-won with a smile: "With makeup, or if you officially star, Park Hae-young needs to cut her hair because she is a policeman, preferably with short hair, no problem, right?" ”

Ji Jingyuan's hair length is medium and long now, which is not very long in idol, but it is a bit inappropriate to play a policeman.

"Of course."

Hearing this, Chi Jingyuan laughed all of a sudden, shook the bangs in front of his forehead, and his expression looked expectant: "Actually, I've been thinking about cutting my hair short for a long time." ”

……

After the audition, Ji Kyung-won received a call from Kim Won-seok again, according to this brother, today's audition actually turned out to be quite good, not to mention the two people who originally supported Ji Kyung-won, the writer Kim Eun-hee also felt that he was very suitable for Park Hae-young, and his attitude obviously changed in private.

Kim Won-seok hinted that Ji Kyung-won is basically fine, and he should be able to confirm it after the next audition.

And he also knew that Park Hae-young was not good at acting, and he also said that when the time came, he might add some plots to make this character more plump.

With the director's package ticket, Chi Jingyuan was also a lot relieved, and hurriedly expressed his gratitude before hanging up the phone.

Although most of the roles have been decided, the next audition with makeup still has to be carefully prepared, but the next audition is estimated to be a period of time, according to Kim Won-seok, it should be necessary to wait until the other two roles, that is, Cho Jin-woong and Kim Hye-so, sign a contract before starting the audition.

This schedule is actually just right for Ji Kyung-won, because EXO is going to be busy these days, in addition to a few consecutive concerts at the end of the month and early November, they also have to release an album album in Neon to officially debut, and it is about the same time to return to Seoul after a bunch of activities.

When I returned to the dormitory in the evening, several members were chatting about something on the sofa in the living room, and when I saw Chi Jingyuan coming back, he said hello, and then someone asked curiously:

"Jingyuan, who are you preparing for the Halloween party?"

(End of chapter)